Synopses & Reviews
2021 Moonbeam Gold Award Winner – Best Holiday Book (1st Place)
Introduce Halloween to your youngest reader or pre-reader with this interactive, not-so-spooky lift-a-flap adventure.
Featuring six interactive, super-sturdy flaps hiding delightful Halloween surprises and friendly creatures, Pumpkin Baby! follows a young pumpkinhead toddler over the course of festive Halloween night in a magical 20th-century New England town.
At their own pace, young readers and pre-readers will discover the details of this magical Halloween world brought to exquisite life by renowned illustrator Meg Hunt.
Pumpkin Baby! is a 5.5x5.5” board book, 12 pages, full color, chunky matte-laminated paper board with a sturdy flap on each spread (6 total).
Lexile-measured reading level: Ages 0 to 4.
This book is aligned with Common Core Standards.
Review
”[W]ell-written rhymes and bright colors make [Pumpkin Baby] ideal for reading aloud to the littlest baby bats…its chunky shape allows babies to explore the story in their own way." GeekMom
Review
“Thick, durable, and easily operated flap[s]….The artwork is eye-catching, with Pumpkin Baby’s chilly fall colors, skeletons, bats, and jack-o-lantern’s especially effective and surreal.” Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis
Open the flaps to follow Pumpkin Baby over the course of a not-so-spooky evening on Pumpkin Baby's favorite night of the year: Halloween Features flaps on every spread that reveal a fun, unexpected character or Halloween surprise.
Synopsis
★ 2021 Moonbeam Gold Award: Best Holiday Book
Open the flaps to follow Pumpkin Baby over the course of a not-so-spooky evening on Pumpkin Baby's favorite night of the year: Halloween
Classical Halloween iconography abounds in a magical imagining of an early 20th century New England town. Young readers and pre-readers will discover the details of this non-threatening Halloween world alongside their Pumpkin Baby avatar, as every spread features a flap revealing a fun, unexpected character or Halloween surprise.
The durable, interactive flaps make this an ideal multisensory experience for hours of fun at schools, libraries, homeschool or stay-at-home activities.
"Eye-catching...especially effective and surreal." --Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Elias Barks is a writer who lives with his cats, Agnes and Magnus, beneath the gray skies of Astoria, Oregon. He is the author of Alien Baby!, Bigfoot Baby! and Pumpkin Baby!.
Meg Hunt is a celebrated and award-winning artist living in Portland, Oregon. In addition to illustrating four Hazy Dell Flap Books, Meg has illustrated picture books for Chronicle, Bloomsbury, and Hazy Dell Press. Meg has won a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators and has had her illustrations featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Junior Scholastic Magazine.